Does America Need Economic Rights?
A conversation with Andrea Flynn
2 min readFeb 1, 2019
Andrea Flynn is a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, where she researches and writes on race, gender, and economic inequality. She is the co-author of The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy, with Susan Holmberg, Dorian Warren, and Felicia Wong. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Time, and Salon.
Mentioned:
- Twitter: Andrea Flynn
- Article: America Needs Economic Rights
- Person: Susan Holmberg
- Speech: FDR, State of the Union Address, Jan 11, 1944
- Book: The Second Bill of Rights, Cass Sunstein
- Org: Roosevelt Institute
- Topic: Mixed economy
- Topic: Neoliberalism
- Book: There Will Be No Miracles Here, Casey Gerald
- Book: American Amnesia, Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
- Topic: Bernie Sanders on Medicare for All
- Topic: Jobs Guarantee
- Topic: Collective bargaining
- Article: Allegations Oracle underpaid women, minorities
- Report: Curbing Stock Buybacks
- Article: Trump and the Military Are at Odds on Climate Change
- Topic: Flint water crisis
- Person: William A. Darity
- Person: Darrick Hamilton
- Person: Mark Paul
- Article: An Economic Bill of Rights for the 21st Century
- Person: Trudy Goldberg
- Person: Sheila D. Collins
- Paper: A 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights — A Scorecard & Proposal
- Topic: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- Topic: Southern Christian Leadership Conference on economic rights
- Topic: Poor People’s Campaign
- Article: We Need an Economic Bill of Rights
- Person: A. Philip Randolph
- Topic: A Freedom Budget for All Americans (PDF)
- Org: Poor People’s Campaign
- Person: William J. Barber II
- Topic: Racial wage gap in the U.S.
- Topic: Gender inequality in the U.S.
- Topic: Wealth inequality in the U.S.
- Data: U.S. public opinion on abortion
- Person: Dorian Warren
- Person: Felicia Wong
- Book: The Hidden Rules of Race, Andrea Flynn, Susan Holmberg et al.
- Article: Trump’s Tax Cut One Year Later — What Happened?
- Book: The Nordic Theory of Everything, Anu Partanen
- Article: Ocasio-Cortez’s 70% [top marginal] tax rate — not so radical?
- Article: Bernie Sanders’s new plan to supercharge the estate tax, explained
- Article: Elizabeth Warren’s proposed tax on enormous fortunes, explained
- Article: Majority Backs AOC’s 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate
- Person: Harvey Kaye
- Book: The Fight for the Four Freedoms, Harvey Kaye
- Topic: Affordable Care Act